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Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
24 dead in Texas floods and more than 20 children missing from a girls summer camp
At least 24 people are dead and more than 20 girls attending a summer camp are unaccounted for after months' worth of heavy rain fell in a matter of hours in Texas on Friday. Search teams conducted boat and helicopter rescues in the fast-moving flood waters as members of the public took to social media, desperate for information on loved ones in the area. At a news conference late Friday Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said 24 people had been killed. Authorities said 237 people had been recued so far, including 167 by helicopter. The news follows at least 25cm of rain which poured down overnight in central Kerr County, causing flash flooding of a nearby river. 'Some are adult, some are children,' said Texan Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, 'Again, we don't know where those bodies came from.' Teams conducted dozens of rescues, and emergency responders continued to search for those who were unaccounted for. That includes more than 20 girls missing from summer camps. The missing children were attending a Christian camp along the Guadalupe River. Helicopters, nine rescue teams and people on the ground are conducting a massive search, according to Patrick. He says the search will continue overnight. 'I'm asking the people of Texas, do some serious praying this afternoon. On-your-knees kind of praying, that we find these young girls,' Patrick said, who added that the number of confirmed dead is expected to change over the coming hours. A local flood watch issued on Thursday estimated isolated amounts of up to 17cm of rising water, but that shifted to a flood warning for at least 30,000 people overnight. Texas' governor Greg Abbot said the state was providing resources to communities dealing with the flooding.
Bloomberg
04-07-2025
- Climate
- Bloomberg
Death Count Climbs in Texas After Severe Flooding
By Updated on Save KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Months worth of heavy rain fell in a matter of hours on Texas Hill Country, killing at least 13 people and leaving more than 20 girls attending a summer camp unaccounted for Friday as search teams conducted boat and helicopter rescues in the fast-moving flood water. Desperate pleas peppered social media as loved ones sought any information available about people caught in the flood zone.
Bloomberg
04-07-2025
- Climate
- Bloomberg
At Least Six Dead, Many Missing in Texas After Severe Flooding
By Updated on Save KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Months worth of heavy rain fell in a matter of hours on Texas Hill Country, killing at least 13 people and leaving more than 20 girls attending a summer camp unaccounted for Friday as search teams conducted boat and helicopter rescues in the fast-moving flood water. Desperate pleas peppered social media as loved ones sought any information available about people caught in the flood zone.
Yahoo
04-07-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Multiple people dead and dozens rescued amid Texas flooding as search continues for others missing, authorities say
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Multiple people dead and dozens rescued amid Texas flooding as search continues for others missing, authorities say.
The Independent
06-06-2025
- The Independent
Madeleine McCann search latest: Animal bones among limited findings as police hunt ends in Praia da Luz
German and Portuguese investigators congratulated and embraced each other as searches connected to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann drew to a close. Search teams wound down the operation in Atalaia, near Lagos, Portugal, on Thursday, after three days of scouring scrubland and abandoned structures. Officers involved in the latest searches held a debrief before leaving the site, and there was a round of applause before a crate of German beer was removed from one of the tents in the designated base area. After the Augustiner beers were carried away, some officers struggled to grapple with the tents they were taking down because of the blustery conditions. Earlier in the day, personnel could be seen holding pitchforks as they combed stretches of land. Pick-axes and shovels were used to dig some of the undergrowth and a digger was again used to remove rubble from one of the abandoned structures at the site. They spent the first two days of the search focusing on one particular derelict building, using ground-penetrating radar on the cobbled ground after clearing the area of debris and vegetation using a digger and chainsaws
